Friday, July 08, 2005

**OMG**

It's over. Just like that. I've just done my Grade 8.

I can't believe myself. I was so, so stupid. When the examiner (who is British with very nice GREEN eyes) asked me to play B flat in thirds, I told him that it wasn't in my syllabus.

Stupid? Very.

Then I realized he meant separate hands, not hands together. It was in my syllabus. Played it after I realized my stupid misunderstanding. I so wanted to apologize profusely.

Oh God.

Aural was screwed up. He asked me to sing a tune he just played. It was stuck clearly in my head, but I sang something else.

Stupid? Very.

And then came the chord progression (it was a plagal cadence, btw). He asked me to identify the last three chords. I couldn't get the first one eventhough it was obviously a IIb. You know what I guessed? VIb. VIIc.

Stupid? Very.

Finally got the chord identified, after much mental self-beating. I'm good in aural. So then what happened???

After that, everything went smoothly. My pieces and scales were fine (keyword: fine, not great). But I'm absolutely sure I will NOT get a distinction. Absolutely positively. Or is it 'negatively' since my sentence is negative?

Although it would be nice if I did. Wait, it would be better than nice.

Overall, I did okay. Still recovering from the self-beating. *sigh*

Stupid? Very.

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?dael had a question at 10:23 AM